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New subreddit talking about it here. I'm assuming it will eventually be a Lemmy community

https://reddit.com/r/SyncforLemmy

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

lol:

I'm genuinely excited though. I've been a long time sync user, and I'd love to see similar features available for Lemmy!

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

like if the app is better than the browser....

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Holy shit, what a dumpster fire

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

But in the app they can fingerprint you better, allowing them to better identify the criminal scum using third party apps.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Just WOW! I'm using SyncPro for 9+ years, I'll support this app for sure!!!

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

Mlem is a good beginning, but I hope for an Apollo-level quality app for Lemmy. It'll come, in time. And perhaps SyncForLemmy will be just that!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That is our goal with Mlem. And trust me, our team is working, as absolutely fast as we can! Keep in mind, though, we’re starting from scratch. 😁

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Have to assume it’ll be Android-only like Sync for Reddit is/was, right?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I think it’s only a matter of time. I hope Lemmy/fediverse keeps up the momentum, it’s so great being off Reddit.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Obviously lemmy.world isnt the ideal location for beehaw users to follow but you dont need to be logged in to view content so I'd suggest just browsing the syncforlemmy community natively for now. Right now there are no official posts by ljdawson anyways.

https://lemmy.world/c/syncforlemmy

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Seems like a consequence of beehaw's actions

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[–] lowleveldata 19 points 1 year ago (5 children)

How's Sync compared to Reddit Is Fun? I've never used the former

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago

Sync was my favorite reddit app personally, its not the most similar to RIF though. As far as I understand RIF was more like old.reddit.com. Sync utilizes a lot of modern UI choices but the layout has always been really nice and has had amazing customization

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not like RIF, more modern space wasting with the 'card' approach. Although I'm not sure about customisation, I just remember trying it and it had the same design 'flaws' every other had until I stumbled into RIF, which was perfect.

Would love a RIF-like app.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Sync was very big on customizability, so it did have the options to make your view incredibly compact as well. By default, it was always set to follow very closely with Google's design language, but you could get something very similar to the density of RIF as well.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sync was my preferred app. Will pay money again for a lemmy version

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Lol I clicked the link and reddit showed

This community has not been reviewed and might contain content inappropriate for certain viewers. View in the Reddit app to continue.

With the only two options being continue in the app or take me home

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Amazing news. I loved Sync. If the developer could just imitate what they did with Sync but for Lemmy that would be great!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As someone who paid for Sync Pro, I would gladly pay the developer again for a Lemmy app. I just hope /u/ljdawson won't opt for a "subscription" based app.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Very exciting! Jerboa is nice but it's always great to have alternatives.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

That's my favorite reddit client. I was hoping someone would do a similar client for Lemmy. This is great news, I'd totally buy a paid version of Sync for Lemmy just to support the developer.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

this has been my reddit app for over a decade!!! this just made my entire day!!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If- redditisfun was ported to use lemmy- the circle of life would be completed.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

The circle of lif.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fantastic news! Sync was my main client of choice. I will be more than happy to toss the dev a few more bucks.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow, tried to view it on my mobile and just got a pop up from reddit saying it's unreviewed content and I should be careful, ONLY giving me the options either to leave or download the official reddit app to view it.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

~~https://lemmy.ml/c/syncforlemmy or search [email protected] in your instance.~~

Edit: Official community modded by Ljdawson himself is: [email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

In a few months we’ll probably have a dozen Lemmy apps. Sync, Mlem, Memmy (which I’m typing this from), Artemis, and several others I’ve seen posts about are already in development. Excited to see what people create!

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

If Boost for Reddit shifts to Lemmy/kbin, I would be overjoyed.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

And Boost will apparently be included as a patchable app in ReVanced Manager, allowing any user to use thir own API. i'm sure there could have been a very sensible way for 3rd party app developers continue their amazing work and Reddit get a share of the profits...This Elon Effect is stupid to a default

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

My Reddit app of choice, definitely psyched for this.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Great news. Sync made Reddit usable for me, as I was able to easily filter out keywords and subs that were problematic.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

This accelerated my plans to join Lemmy immensely and, et voila. Sync is probably the best software app I have on my phone, simply from a design perspective.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Hey, I'm from the sync exodus! Super excited.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

This is amazing news! I like Jerboa but I've been using Sync for many years now. It's just so dang good.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yesssssssss - by far my most used app. would happily pay for another pro version.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

https://lemmy.world/c/syncforlemmy

This is the new community on Lemmy

Edit of course it's a lemmy.world community. Sorry guys, I'm not on the beehaw instance so I see both.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Really hope Relay does the same

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

awesome news! i used to jump between Sync and Boost for reddit.

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